Railway-tie.



G. LBssIG.v A RAILWAY TIE. APPLICATION FILED 0UT.3, 1911.

Patented May 28, 1912.

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esonerav Lassie, Aor READING, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAILWAY-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

` Patented May 28,1912.

Application filed. October 3,v 1911. Serial No. 652,611. Y

To all whom t may concern ,s ,f

Be it known that I, GEORGE Lassie, citizen of the United States, residing atReading, in the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Ties, of which the following ris a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in railway ties, mo-re particularly to the class of metal railway ties, and has for one of its object-s to provide a simply constructed tie which is strong and durable and sufficiently yieldable to prevent damage to the rolling stock when passing over the tracks which are supported upon the improved tie. j

Another obj ect of the invention is to provide a tie built up of a plurality of plates which not only provide the necessary spring or yieldableness, but likewise enable the broken or` impaired portions to. be renewed without necessity for discarding the whole tie.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described, and then specically pointed out in the claims, and in the drawings illustrativeV of the preferred embodiment of the invention; Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section, of the improved tie with the railsv in position thereon; Fig-2 is a plan view of a portion of the improved tie; Fig. 8 is a section on the line 3-3 ofFig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrow.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the 4following description and indicated in all the views of the accompanying drawings by the same reference characters.

The body of the improved tie is built up from a plurality of metal plates represented at 10, and the usual length and width of a tie and with a sufficient number of the plates employed to equal when combined the total The ordinary tie is about eight feet long, eight inches wide, and

`ten inches thick, and these dimensions will preferably be followed, but may be varied as The plates v10 increased or decreased to correspond to the 7 strain to which they will be subj ectedby the rolling stock. When employed upon, heavy freight tracks, the plates will be heavier than when employed for ordinary passenger traflic. The plates will preferably be `of ,steel Vand preferably about two or two and a half4 inches thick.

Mounted upon the body 10 at the ends are jackets or rail supports which are formed with an upper side 11 bearing upon the upper plate 1() and with downwardly directed flanges 12 at the sides which bear over the side edges of two or more of the plates and with a downwardly directed vterminal flange 13 which bears over the ends of two or more of the plates. The plates 10 are perforated near the ends and the upper members 11 of the rail supports are likewise perforated to register with the perforations of the plates, the perforations designed to receive a relatively heavy clamp bolt 14 which is formedwith a head 15 at the lower end and a nut 16 at the upper end. By this means the jacket or rail support is firmly secured to the body.

Each of the rail supports is provided with a transverse rail-receiving recess 17 and with apertures18 adjacent to the recess to receive clamp bolts 19 for engagingthe tie flanges of the rails, the latter being represented conventionally at 20. Any number of the cla-mp bolts may be employed, but generally two, one at each side of the rail will be used, as shown. By this simple means the rail is firmly clamped to the rail support or jacket, and the latter likewise firmly secured to the tie body.

The improved tie is simple in construction,

can be inexpensively manufactured, is very durable and practically,indestructible, while at the same time the body portion being constructed of a plurality of plates 10, will yield to the rolling stock as it passes over the rails, arid thus obviate injury from the pounding or impact of the wheels.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

1. A railway tie comprising a body formed of a plurality of superimposed metal plates,

vrailfsupports bearing upon the body at the ends and provided with downwardly depending flanges engaging over the side edges and ends of a plurality of the plates, and means `for connecting the'body members together and likewise for connecting the rail supports to the body members.

2; A railway tie comprising a body formed of a plurality of superimposed metal plates,

rail supports bearing upon the body at the through said rail supports and body mem- 10 ends und provided with downwardly dependbers.

ing iienges engaging over the side edges and In testimony whereof I aIiX my signature ends of a plurality of the plates, said rail in presence of two witnesses.

supports each havin@ a transverse recess for receiving the tie iantge of a rail, clamp bolts GEORGE LESSIG {L' S'] engaging in said rail supports and provided Witnesses: with heads adapted to extend over the flange JAIRUS LEssIG, of a rail, and clamping means operating WILLIAM LEssIG.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. C. 

